The Wall Street Journal Executive MBA Rankings

The Wall Street Journal released its first ranking of Executive MBA programs today based on surveys conducted among graduating Executive MBA students and companies that employ EMBAs. The objective of the rankings was to identify the EMBA programs that best transform high potential managers into impactful leaders. Approximately 2500 students and 200 company officers completed the surveys. The top 25 are below:

1. Northwestern University (Kellogg)
2. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
3. Thunderbird School of Global Management
4. University of Southern California (Marshall)
5. University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
6. University of Michigan (Ross)
7. Cornell University (Johnson)
8. Columbia University (NY Program)
9. University of Chicago
10. Duke University (Fuqua)
11. Emory University (Goizueta)
12. University of California — Berkeley (Haas) — Columbia
13. Columbia — London Business School (Global)
14. New York University (Stern)
15. Southern Methodist University (Cox)
16. University of California — Los Angeles (Anderson)
17. ESADE
18. Vanderbilt University (Owen)
19. Rutgers University
20. Ohio State University (Fisher)
21. Purdue University (Krannert)
22. IPADE
23. IESE
24. University of Western Ontario (Richard Ivey)
25. Fordham University

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